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Transesophageal echocardiographic identification of right vertebral artery
Sujood Ahmed1, Navin C Nanda, Partha Manchikalapudi
1Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35249, USA.
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)
|October 3, 2002
Abstract:
We describe a transesophageal technique for identifying the origin and precervical course of the right vertebral artery with the probe positioned in the upper esophagus. The technique was successful in 9 of 11 patients in whom it was attempted.